pacmd(1)

💖 pacmd — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is pacmd(1), a General Commands Manual situation, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

pacmd — reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pacmd

pacmd --help

pacmd --version

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, bestie, this tool lets you introspect or reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server that's already running, like, during runtime. she connects to the sound server and gives you a cute little live shell where you can type in the exact same commands that the default.pa configuration scripts understand. it's giving "same energy, new venue" ✨

when you wanna dip out of the live shell, hit ctrl+d. no cap.

⚠️ but listen — the exit command inside the shell does NOT just close your lil shell. it tells the PulseAudio daemon itself to shut down. that's the whole daemon. gone. so don't be typing that unless you mean it, queen 😭

if you pass any arguments on the command line, they get passed straight into the live shell, which will process the command and then exit. one and done, periodt.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -h | --help — show help. that's it, that's the vibe 🫶
• --version — show version information. so you know which era of pacmd you're living in ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>

and PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/ — go say hi 💜

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• pulse-cli-syntax(5)
• pulseaudio(1)
• pactl(1)
• default.pa(5)

and that's the whole thing, bestie!! this page lives in the Manuals set, in the User section, and she answers to the name pacmd(1) 🎀✨ mwah, go forth and reconfigure responsibly 💅🌈